[International Sign]: https://youtu.be/V0VwJzon7ZA

Sign CAFÉ 3 (Workshop on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics) has been set up at the University of Birmingham as a regular forum to discuss approaches toward sign language linguistics in the cognitive and functional linguistics tradition. These approaches frame language as a type of social action in relation to other cognitive systems. A wide range of theoretical approaches are included in this definition: they all have in common the importance they ascribe to the role of communication and cognition in linguistic theory and in descriptions of language structure.

Submission Guidelines

We plan to have on-stage (signed/spoken) presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion) as well as two poster sessions. There will only be a single stream of on-stage presentations. The official languages of the conference will be International Sign (IS) and English, with Polish Sign Language (PJM) as an additional language.

Abstracts should be anonymized (with no author names in the text). The anonymous abstract should include the title and indicate whether it is intended for poster or on-stage presentation. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words (including tables, examples and references), in 12-point font, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins.

Abstracts should be submitted in the PDF format through the Sign CAFÉ 3 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=signcaf3.

Video submission in IS is also allowed (maximum length of 5 minutes). Abstracts should be anonymised by being signed by a person different from the author(s). The video should be recorded horizontally. The maximum length of the video should be 5 minutes. Upload your abstract to a YouTube channel (private mode, visible only to those who have the link) and past the link in a PDF file that should include the title, indicate whether it is intended for a poster or an on-stage presentation, and the references. Finally, upload the PDF to Sign CAFÉ 3 EasyChair website.

Please contact the Sign CAFÉ 3 organizers if you have any questions about the submissions of video abstracts (see e-mail below).

Participants will be allowed to present at most one on-stage presentation (as a single or first author) and one poster. However, there is no restriction on the number of co-authored papers.

All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an international scientific committee.

The scientific committee reserves the right to reject abstracts and to accept as a poster abstract submitted as on-stage.

Committees

Organizing committee

• Anna Butkiewicz
• Rafał Darasz
• Magdalena Dunaj
• Zuzanna Kiwerska-Sobolewska
• Alicja Klimczewska
• Justyna Kotowicz
• Monika Kozub
• Łukasz Krysa
• Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
• Sylwia Łozińska
• Marcin Łuczywek
• Piotr Mostowski
• Paweł Rutkowski
• Weronika Szymańska-Gątarek
• Marek Śmietana
• Renata Świderska-Noworyta
• Małgorzata Talipska
• Joanna Wójcicka

Venue

The conference will be held at the University of Warsaw, Poland, in the Old University Library building, where our series of local conferences titled “Research on PJM and d/Deafness” usually takes place. The conference will be hosted in an in-person format.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to signcafe3@uw.edu.pl.